Primal2010

Name: Primal
Genre: Body Horror, Survival, Folk Horror, Monster & Creature
Released: 2010-09-22
Rating: 5.1

“Evil Lies Within”

Directed by Josh Reed

5.1

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 4.8Rotten Tomatoes 63%TMDB 5.2

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Year

2010

Runtime

80 min

The premise

Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

Horror Vault's take

A group of friends accompany an anthropology student to a remote Australian wilderness to examine ancient rock paintings, only for their trip to turn nightmarish when exposure to a mysterious waterhole triggers a terrifying physical and mental transformation in one of their own. What begins as academic curiosity rapidly devolves into a desperate struggle for survival as the infected hunt the uninfected through unforgiving outback terrain. The primal threat lurking within the landscape proves far older and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined, and the cave art they came to study may hold answers that come too late to save them.

Content: Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Gore, Creature Violence, Themes Of Bodily Transformation